A Catalog of Instants centers the endeavor of psychosomatically holding
memories associated with loss; most notably due to death, but also due to mental
and emotional rupture. Core themes of the work include grief, transformation,
and the body. In more specificity; the written work spans the disruption and
grappling with several different mother figures, the death of multiple friends due
to the synthetic opioid epidemic and my process of grieving that follows. This
work investigates a shedding of past selves prompted by life and such losses; a
conversation with memory, dreams, personal archives, and ghostly collaborations.
I have incorporated photographs, poetry, lyric prose, and auditory components
herein. All photography is my own and has been shot on 35mm color film. Visual
elements of the work have been arranged using tactile methods which were then
translated into digital renderings meant to preserve the fingerprints of grief’s
residue.